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"U.S. Sets Up Office To Oversee Abandoned Oil Well Cleanup" [9]

"U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Tuesday issued an order to establish an office to ensure efficient use of the Biden administration's $4.7 billion investment in the cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Government [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Reuters [17], 01/11/2023
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"Climate Deniers Try to 'Fact Check' Real Reporting" [18]

"A prominent group of deniers with a history of dark money benefactors is now trying to claim media is biased, thanks to new funding."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [19]
Journalism & Media [20]
Science [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Earther [22], 01/11/2023
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"Critic Of Fossil Fuels To Lead Key Offshore Oil Agency For Biden" [23]

"The Biden administration is using a new opening at a powerful offshore energy agency to elevate a critic of fossil fuels who previously was blocked from a top Interior Department job because of opposition from oil industry allies in the Senate."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [12]
Infrastructure [13]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [26], 01/11/2023
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"EPA Urges Groups to Apply for Record Environmental Equity Grants" [27]

"The EPA invited environmental justice advocates, communities, and other groups on Tuesday to apply for $100 million in environmental justice grants, a record amount provided under last year’s climate law."

Environmental Justice [28]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [29], 01/11/2023
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"Extreme Weather Caused 18 Disasters In US Last Year, Costing $165Bn" [30]

"The US endured a particularly painful year as communities wrestled with the growing impacts of the climate crisis, with 18 major disasters wreaking havoc across the country as planet-heating emissions continued to climb."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [31]
Economy & Business [32]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Guardian [33], 01/11/2023
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The New Soldiers in Propane’s Fight Against Climate Action: TV Stars [34]

"For D.I.Y. enthusiasts, Matt Blashaw is a familiar face, judging bathroom remodels or planning surprise home makeovers on popular cable television shows. Mr. Blashaw also has an unusually strong opinion about how Americans should heat their homes: by burning propane, or liquid petroleum gas."

Climate Change [10]
Consumer [35]
Economy & Business [32]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Politics [19]
Journalism & Media [20]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [36], 01/11/2023
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"UN Says Ozone Layer Slowly Healing, Hole To Mend By 2066" [37]

"Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says."

Air [38]
Chemicals [39]
Natural Resources [40]
Pollution [14]
Public [15]
International [41]
Source: AP [42], 01/10/2023
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Grijalva Blasts House Rules Package For Making Public Land Transfers Easier [43]

"The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee blasted a provision in the proposed House rules package that would make it easier to transfer public lands, calling it an indication the new GOP majority intends to pursue a broadly pro-industry agenda."

Environmental Politics [19]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [40]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The Hill [44], 01/10/2023
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"EPA, Pipeline Operator Reach Deal To Clean Up Kansas Spill" [45]

"The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek."

Disasters [31]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Pollution [14]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [46]
Source: AP [47], 01/10/2023
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Low Salt Marsh Habitats Release More Carbon in Response to Warming: Study [48]

"Salt marshes, excellent reservoirs of carbon, are living ecosystems with vegetation and microscopic organisms that live, breathe, poop and die in the marsh mud."

Biodiversity [49]
Climate Change [10]
Natural Resources [40]
Water & Oceans [25]
Public [15]
International [41]
Source: Inside Climate News [50], 01/10/2023
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"India Expects Utilities' Annual Coal Demand To Surge About 8%" [51]

"India expects its power plants to burn about 8% more coal in the fiscal year ending March 2024, according to a senior government official and a power ministry presentation, after the country missed its 2022 renewable energy goal by more than 30%."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Public [15]
Asia [52]
Source: Reuters [53], 01/10/2023
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"The Last 8 Years Were the Hottest on Record" [54]

"The world remained firmly in warming’s grip last year, with extreme summer temperatures in Europe, China and elsewhere contributing to 2022 being the fifth-hottest year on record, European climate researchers said on Tuesday."

Climate Change [10]
Science [21]
Public [15]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [55]
International [41]
Source: NYTimes [56], 01/10/2023
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"U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose 1.3% In 2022 - Rhodium" [57]

"Greenhouse gas emissions increased slightly from the previous year in 2022 by 1.3%, keeping the U.S. just 15.5% below 2005 levels and off track to meet its global pledge to slash emissions 50-52% by 2030, according to estimates published on Tuesday by research group Rhodium."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Reuters [58], 01/10/2023
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"Global Pollinator Losses Causing 500,000 Early Deaths A Year – Study" [59]

"The global loss of pollinators is already causing about 500,000 early deaths a year by reducing the supply of healthy foods, a study has estimated."

Agriculture [60]
Biodiversity [49]
Chemicals [39]
Environmental Health [61]
Food [62]
Public [15]
International [41]
Source: Guardian [63], 01/10/2023
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Louisiana Coastal Plan Update Promises Billions In Hurricane-Damage Savings [64]

"A draft update of the state’s $50 billion coastal master plan predicts that 61 new projects to build or protect land, a dozen new levees, and new efforts to elevate, flood-proof or relocate flood-prone homes will reduce annual hurricane storm surge damages by at least $11 billion per year by 2073."

Biodiversity [49]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Studies [65]
Fish & Fisheries [66]
Natural Resources [40]
Planning & Growth [67]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [68]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [69]
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [70], 01/10/2023
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